What's new in midwifery - 28th August 2019

Maternite, by Renoir

Maternite, or, L'enfant au sein, in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.   Read more about it in French here. 

Some recent things...

NICE Consultations

Intrapartum care: women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies: quality standard consultation
This is a draft quality standard, due for publication in February 2020, and you can comment until 23rd September at 5 pm.

Statistics

Female genital mutilation

Global health

Developing and applying a "living guidelines" approach to WHO recommendations on maternal and perinatal health
"Living guidelines" is a continuous approach to updating recommendations.   There are links to the recommendations themselves.


Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, HIFA email discussion list.  And my wife Suzanne for taking me to some art galleries in Paris!